Answer:
70.7 ft
Step-by-step explanation:
The triangle formed by home plate, first base, and second base is an isosceles right triangle with hypotenuse 100 ft. Then the side length (base-line distance between bases) is (100 ft)/√2 ≈ 70.7 ft.
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For an isosceles right triangle with side lengths 1, the hypotenuse can be found from the Pythagorean theorem to be ...
hypotenuse = √(side² + side²) = √(1²+1²) = √2
Then the diamond distances satisfy the proportion ...
hypotenuse/side = 100 ft/(base distance) = √2/1
or ...
base distance = (100 ft)/√2 ≈ 70.71068 ft
